Noun
A marquis.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlec Douglas-Home resigned from his peerages days after becoming Prime Minister in 1963, and the last Prime Minister before him from the Lords left in 1902 (the Marquess of Salisbury ). Source: Internet
A woman with the rank of a marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is called a marchioness main citation in Great Britain and Ireland or a marquise main elsewhere in Europe. Source: Internet
As the marquess of Winchester said of himself, he was sprung from the willow rather than the oak, and he was not the man to suffer for convictions. Source: Internet
City status was awarded as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria, being signified in a letter from the prime minister, the Marquess of Salisbury to the mayor, dated 18 June 1897. Source: Internet
Burghley House (1555–1587), seat of the Marquess of Exeter, hereditary Lord Paramount of Peterborough Coupled with vast local clay deposits, the railway enabled large-scale brick-making and distribution to take place. Source: Internet
But on 1 August the rebels were defeated by an army led by the Marquess of Northampton who had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising. Source: Internet